Moving Targets
July 27, 2017
We can oppose Trump’s trans ban and everything it sets out to do without valorizing the military’s bombs and bombast.
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Catholic Sisters Storm Capitol Hill
WELCOME TO INTERVIEWS FOR RESISTANCE. Since election night 2016, the streets of the United States have rung with resistance. People all over the country have woken up with the conviction that they must do something to fight inequality in all its forms. But many are wondering ...
Two Poems
July 25, 2017
To a Politician
Your penis is homeless
You are covered with as many warts as the lies you’ve told
You pat maggots on their backs
Your syphilitic mouth sucks the slugs from the irradiated cocks of your cohorts
This gives a bad name to syphilis, if I mention it in ...
Tory Porn
For Christopher Nolan, perhaps the last Tory propagandist in cinema, “society” and “the people” do not exist.
We’re Living in The Thick of It
July 24, 2017
While no Trump administration official can match Malcolm Tucker’s wit, they can certainly equal his vulgarity.
Spicer, Racked
July 21, 2017
There’s no real need to speak of Spicer’s legacy in complicated terms. He was not good.
Weekly Bafflements
July 21, 2017
It has been a very long week.
More Mush from the Taste Police
The first noteworthy paradox in the taste-policing racket is that it’s a singularly lucrative and prestigious one.
Laboring Academia
Universities claim graduate teaching and research aren’t worthy of the designation of “work.” It’s high time graduate employees called their bluff.
Bridging the Healthcare Divide in West Virginia
“Coal is king.” Or was. Coal is on the ropes right now.
The Online Culture Wars
Corey Pein chats about online right-wing movements with writer and academic Angela Nagle.
The Great Lakes Avengers vs. The Crumbling Cities of the Coast
The dominant superhero narrative, at least in its current form, often depends on a metropolis at risk. Whether fictional or real, present or past, a city crumbling in on itself is what’s at stake. A city that seems like one you might love someone inside of, or a city that ...